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That was a mind-expanding 45-minute talk. Than you for highlighting it.
> I think io_uring was able to better fit modern reality

Genuinely would be fascinated to understand what that means
> I actually think that's exactly what their wording is trying to say.

And herein lies the problem, because they are literally saying what they say - private AND efficient AND scalable. You are the one adding hypothetical caveats.

They are talking about offloading functionality that cannot occur on device. The scalability and efficiency is not being used as a reason to take privacy away, it is simply an additional requirement of how they must meet their pledge.

The quote you are referencing is literally about how these features are implemented using homomorphic encryption to perform lookups on anonymously accessed black boxes: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry... . Which part of that is them sacrificing privacy to make it scalable and efficient, and how would using a dedicated server per user increase privacy? Is there some specific privacy issue you can see with their implementation?
As much as I support and vouch for the guys.

Go public earlier is BS - they went public a year ago when it was clear there is political change in PL.

If they would go public in before government change it could have been tragic ( company and company ownership is tightly coupled with prev political power). If previous political power would stay in power I do not believe they would go public.

As much as they are showing in presentation work was done when previous political power was still strong - well good that they went public in the end but I do believe there still was shitload of calculations.

So if you want to go public watch out calculate best possible time.
As much as guys are great don’t believe it is pure heroism - pure heroism is stupid - so they did right thing at right time.
It's not as uncommon here as tejocotes, but I'm always chuffed to find good looking and not overripe mangosteens at farmers markets or specialty produce suppliers.

They're more common to find at Asian markets, where they often come in mesh bags of a half dozen, but my experience is they're often overripe and their fruit has become slightly translucent and mushy.

You can identify a ripe mangosteen by a rich reddish purple exterior that gives slightly when pressed. If it's darkened to a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably over-ripened.

They are very rare at farmer's markets though. Growing them in the USA in most places requires a greenhouse as they need a tropical climate: year round high humidity and a minimum temperature of ~55-60F.
> I don’t see why you would ever have to switch to a certain IDE

Alarmingly, basic proficiency in VSCode becoming a must in many software developing teams and I don't like that. People really seem to have zero concerns about Microsoft aggressively pushing their proprietary agenda, neatly wrapped in "open-source" packaging.
An awesome and simple Data Stack using AWS Lambda and DuckDB, along with Delta Lake, to show the Lake House architecture doesn't have to be complex.
It's interesting to wonder what they'd gain from it. Given just the geographic distance, would it really affect things like trade, movement of people or security cooperation.

My understanding is that they're stable since the financial crisis.
I’d be willing to sign someone’s (possibly incomplete) background check if I worked with them for six months.
Yes, but not syncthing-fork (the UI on the fork is outdated but the functionality is the same)
Even more amusing is when half your customers are in Gmail, the other half in Exchange, and Gmail and Exchange are having some snit so the emails ain't happening. You call up Microsoft and they want you to reboot (??) or login to some windows account (??), and good luck getting someone from Google on the line. Fear not, for outsourced email saves money, and increases productivity, or anyways something like that, and if you have sufficient faith those big old corporations will fix things, eventually, maybe.

I, for one, welcome our new AOL overlords.
Ask HN: Is your company still outsourcing to Eastern Europe?
Right before the Russia invasion it seemed outsourcing to Ukraine was the latest craze in the tech industry. One article says the outsourcing was over $7b or 4% of Ukraine's entire GDP before the war.

I know Google and big tech are still hiring in Poland despite Poland adopting an increasing "war is coming" stance.
Well said! Designing from first principles is how we get ahead and outcompete those who are stuck in the past.
>high-intensity users of WAP

A very professional way of saying you were getting a lot of play? /j
As a Pole, all I can say to this

" joining the EU has been national suicide for every other country that submitted to it"

is lmao.
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Ibu is not intended to be the next big thing to compete with C, C++, Rust, or other modern languages. Instead, it aims to be a programming language that brings joy to programming.
Obviously the specifics will be private to you but can you elaborate a bit? This idea resonates with me.
Iceland is part of the EEA, where you accept most the rules of the single market being sent over by a fax machine from Brussels.

But this excludes things such as farming and fishing, the latter of which has been very important for Iceland because the EU has never always got that right in a painful attempt to make all member states equally unhappy, and representation of where those rules are decided (Council, Parliament) or proposed (Commission).

Even outside the EEA, the size of the EU on the continent means European countries who want to do large amounts of frictional-less trading end up importing the EUs rules (e.g. Switzerland, post-Brexit UK) with no say on them.
Hmm, the alternative of being a second class participant in trade with your biggest trade partners seems to be worse though. Britain is finding out just how bad Brexit was for them.
Go ahead and put that cup of kool-aid down for a minute. There are so so many OSS packages out there that have never been audited? Why not? Because people have better things to do. How many packages have you audited? Personally, I don't have the skillz to do that. The people that do expect to be compensated for their efforts. That's why so many OSS packges have vulns that go unnoticed until after they are exploited, which is the same thing as closed source.

OSS is not the panacea that everyone touts it to be.
It's been doing this since long before iOS 18. I first observed this behavior already on my 1st gen. iPhone SE with iOS 11 or maybe iOS 12. Every now and then, especially after having taken new pictures with the camera, I'd see the network activity spinner get going whenever starting Photos - and I've never enabled iCloud backups, but rather explicitly always disabled it everywhere I find a setting to do so. With Wi-Fi it'd be a short one second affair, and on cellular it'd take a few seconds more. I also observed the duration of the activity to vaguely extend with the number of new pictures taken between starting Photos. Curiously, when disabling cellular data permission for Photos and having no Wi-Fi connected, the network activity spinner would still pop up and just get stuck indefinitely without ever finishing whatever it's reporting.

My gut feeling has always been that it's returning digested machine learning feedback for Photos' facial/object recognition.

(add.: since moving from the iPhone 8 and iOS 16 to a modern iPhone and iOS 17/18 this behavior has gone away - at least the network activity spinner doesn't gossip anymore...)
> By failure I meant go to $0

If that is your only criteria, then beanie babies have not failed.

Almost everything has some value to somebody. Some coins and stamps have inflated values compared to their intrinsic worth. Same with any collectible item. I think that if bitcoin remains basically a unique form of collectible, then its original intent has failed regardless of how much money someone can get by selling one.
My only issue with Fish is when pasting things from the web that assume Bash, a lot of the time it just works, then now and then I get screwed. I don't know nearly enough Fish or Bash to switch. Still though, I prefer Fish ultimately.
What is a second?
I was. First by the md_worker processes that mysteriously started pinning all of my CPU cores after a git clone. Then by the realization that MacOS had built a full-text index of millions of lines of source code (it only took a few hours of my Mac being too hot to touch).

A lot of Apple's defaults are just plain bizarre. Why the hell is Spotlight seeing source code mimetypes and feeding it to the search index?
That’s what I see, too. I see someone who is easy to manage, as opposed to someone leaking AI slop into production.
>> with low ROI and so not worth it for most countries.

I think by the very nature of what’s going on you’re demonstratedly wrong on this point.
But no one knows what "fairly slow" is.
Also the climate collapse theories predict that once a certain tipping point is reached, its game over. If that is true then slow and stable increase still gets us to that point just a bit later.

In other words to make climate change stable do we need to reduce CO2 emissions, completely stop CO2 emission or remove CO2 and reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere?

We don't even know which of these 3 options would lead to the "fairly slow/stable" we want.
It seems like we just do all 3 with no evidence of any real world effect whatsoever.
How does it work in US, you just look at the guy and then he sends you his IBAN?

Aren’t companies required to establish an employee’s origin by bureaucratic means? IDs, SSNs, notarized copies, work permit, etc? Why are North Korean guys even a problem, it feels like they shouldn’t be able to fake identification numbers and permits, unless something is fundamentally wrong with the country’s accounting.
I bet they could leverage a better deal from the EU if they get an offer from DJT first.
Find someone over the age of 50 and ask them how to get a job.

First point: you won't like what they say. You won't like it at all. You'll probably absolutely hate it, and even start to hate him a little in the process.

Second point: you'll have a job in under 6 months.
Sure there is. I used to read Wikipedia's Article of the Day every day at lunch. I only stopped because I found even more interesting (to me) things to read about.
I doubt you spend every second of your non-work time staring into space though. I like to read, for example; just because I do it on my phone in public sometimes doesn't mean I'm not finding other times for quiet contemplation.
Could we just say that natural numbers can be represented using sets, and leave it there?

Natural numbers can also be represented by even natural numbers (e.g. the easy way where 2n represents n), but that doesn't tempt people to make metaphysical statements about natural numbers somehow fundamentally "being" even. There is no reason why a representation of natural numbers by sets should be any more tempting.
You mentioned getting real money to make a system work.

I pointed out an ordinary mechanism by which a person could find capital.

A winning system could offer better rates to customers of a money laundering service.
I'm wondering what has fundamentally changed in computing between the creation of kqueue and io_uring so the latter is able to better fit modern reality.
The lottery commissions are major purchasers of advertising so don't expect the media companies to bite that hand any time soon.
> joining the EU has been national suicide for every other country that submitted to it

Care to elaborate with a couple of examples that can help me grok your POV? Honestly curious, because my personal perspective is nearly diametrically opposed.
I think the slow and expensive argument can be rebuted fairly easily.

The traditional financial system is formed of many layers. At a high level, it is: central banks, commercial banks, then card processors.

You have to change your view to see Bitcoin as the settlement layer of this new anti-establishment currency, similar to how central banks settle today. That doesn't need to be fast, it needs to be secure.

Bitcoin is pretty fast in settling relatively speaking, at least compared to other currencies.[1] It's important to look at the amount of value (electricity, power, money) that backs the block, instead of the raw block speed. People mistakenly compare block-time - look at Litecoin, it doesn’t matter if it has 4x faster blocks when 4 Litecoin blocks are worth many many times less than one Bitcoin block. The cost to reverse (51% attack) a transaction is much lower.

If you agree with that view, then the Lightning Network[2] can be a promising solution to the slow and expensive argument. It isn't a 1:1 replacement to Bitcoin (someone else will likely need custody your coins if this scales to a global level), but it does solve the problem.

As for the volatility, I think it's entirely expected to have extreme volatility as a currency is monetizing[3]. There's no real way for it to get from $0 to $2T of market cap in less than two decades (and perhaps go toward $20T) without large price appreciation and subsequent busts. Look at Apple stock as comparison. And it's not a fair comparison, because a stock has an underlying revenue stream that puts an implicit floor and ceiling to its price, whereas a monetary asset like Bitcoin doesn't.

In essence, I believe it's premature to declare it "already failed" at being a currency. Although I agree that the signs of becoming a currency aren't strong.

1 - https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurance...
2 - https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/
3 - https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/i-love-bitcoins-volatili...
Problem is, nobody takes DJT seriously. And rightfully so.
To "uphold one's commitment to privacy" the only thing to do is just that: uphold one's commitment to privacy. One doesn't need to make sure the lookups are "efficient" or "scalable" (or "clean" or "polite" or what have you). That is absolutely not needed for privacy.

Why would they need to add these qualifiers if not to explain/justify that privacy isn't the only concern, there are technical matters to consider as well.
> A ubiquitous language helped us avoid “programmer speak,” where we talked using names for things nobody had heard of but us and nouns and concepts nobody else understands.

This is part of Domain Driven Design btw. I fully agree with this too. Makes it easier.
From what? Trying to think very hard what geographical region Iceland is in that has those initials but I'm coming up blank
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A lot of things to unpack in this comment, but I mainly want to define success as "appreciating value" and failure as "losing value".

So if it went from $100k to $10k in the next year, stayed at $10k for a few years and then trended toward $0. I think I would define that as failure.

What do you think then?
Yes - The choice is dictated solely by the pollution.

I Can’t comment on the laws in New Zealand, but I live in California, which is, relatively, Progressive with worker protections.

The dangers associated with the Trimmer blades are a subset of the dangers associated with the chainsaws we (safely) use.
So to you the EU is evil? Advances like ECHR have curtailed the ability of countries to act against the basic interests of their citizens (like a supranational Bill of Rights)... what sort of evil is that?

Actions like directing money to deprived areas, when national government would not; supporting cultural projects; supporting major infrastructure projects. Encouraging nations to work together and increasing mobility of citizens, so far it's seemed to be a most beneficial project.

What are your top 3 examples of 'how the EU is evil' (or more correctly, to paraphrase your last paragraph 'has evil people at the levers')?
“These grapes in the fridge are getting old. Should we toss them or can we get a paper out of it?”
Look at how many instances agreed to block Threads even before it added ActivityPub support because Mark Zuckerberg doesn't ban (legal) opinions and comments he doesn't agree with.

Some people are so insecure about their own opinions that the pure idea that someone exists that might not agree the same is a threat, never mind seeing their content.
The EU has actually been one of history's most successful projects for ensuring peace and prosperity in Europe. Looking at objective metrics like GDP growth, living standards, and decades of peace between former neighboring country adversaries over centuries, EU membership has broadly benefited its members. Poland itself has seen remarkable economic growth and development since joining in 2004. The single market, freedom of movement, and shared democratic values have created unprecedented opportunities for cooperation and development. While the EU isn't perfect, characterizing membership as 'national suicide' ignores the tremendous gains in stability, prosperity, and quality of life that integration has brought to member states. imho.
It's in my profile :)

https://www.jeromehollon.com/
GP meant Donald J. Trump, i.e. the incoming US administration
Iceland has been a pioneer in internet freedom and privacy, joining the EU will subjugate all it stands for.
And what would they gain with this? It seems they already have plenty of agreements with EU, by joining they will just lose their sovereignty.
I believe it correlates to global liquidity and interest rates. Some people have posted good analysis on that.

And it's no surprise tech stocks are correlated to said liquidity/rates too.

That's how I explain it to myself, at least. I do believe a large tech selloff would most likely result in BTC selloff too. But chances are these sort of things may trigger a broader selloff too. e.g check gold correlation to tech stocks recently
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FWIW it took me 15 minutes to replace the screen on my Pixel, took some basic tools but it's a reasonable tradeoff for waterproofing. The battery seemed like an easy swap as well, though I didn't need to at the time. Smartphone repair kits should be sold right along the phones.
> So you're securely confident you invented a gotcha statistical test to disprove what you see as other people's delusions and you're enjoying what you feel is the security of that?

You totally misunderstand. I invite you to try remote viewing my intentions here instead of misreading my post defensively.

> I'm not tryin' to convince you, and I don't care what you believe.

Interesting thing to say, for someone who assumes so hard that I'm being dismissive.
The same DJT that thinks he can buy Greenland
That specific sentence is making an analogy using handmade tools. A hammer is an ideal example of a tool. You would expect to find a hammer in a toolbox. A computer chip is not an ideal example of a tool. You would not expect to find a computer chip in a toolbox.
With the Arctic turning into the next shipping route, Iceland could turn to be the Singapore of the North Atlantic, a trading hub. I mentioned this to an Icelander a few months ago, and he said China recently asked if they could build a port in the north of the country...
> These odds! Nuts. What else has that standard? hahaha :)

Zero-knowledge proofs.
True, it’s just that the original quote is hard swallow. Try melting sand and polishing your own lenses and compare that to a US$ 5 glass.
EU bureaucrats are a bunch of lunatics always looking for ways to expand their influence, doesn't matter the cost for the participating countries.
In any of this event happening, how easy would it be to upgrade the network with a solution?

If the problem is found in time, the network could be forked back to before the problem was exploited?
"Stable since the last crisis" is not very convincing. In the EU they would enjoy lower interest rates, a more stable currency and voting rights. The last bit will help negotiations about trade a lot.

Simply put, they want an inverse Brexit.
Sure, but that's objectively more environmentally wasteful than just replacing specific components, convenience be damned.
> More explicitly. In 2006, Apple asked Intel to make a SoC for their upcoming product... the iPhone.

This isn’t strictly true. Tony Fadell and one of t- the creator of the iPod and considered co-creator of the iPhone - said in an interview with Ben Thompson (Stratechery) that Intel was never seriously in the running for iPhone chips.

Jobs wanted it. But the technical people at Apple pushed back.

Besides, especially in 2006 less than a year before the iPhone was introduced, chip decisions had already been made.
This is the underlying truth for all international trade.

Most countries don't have unique industry/resources in a globalized trade world.

Consequently, population size and economy are the final arbiters of relative trade power. The EU blocking up to create something of comparable negotiating power to the US and China is critical.

Nobody is ever thrilled with the sausage making of treaties and trade agreements -- that's the definition of compromise. But scale does give countries the best chance to strike the best deal possible.
which begs the answer: nothing, unless there is sufficiently convincing evidence to the contrary.
No, the problem is too many people take him seriously and keep voting for him.
I'd like them to be in.

They're Europeans, and a nice bunch.
This is a heavily paywalled article. Dear OP, how do you expect us to read it? (no, archive.is doesn't have it un-paywalled.)
> The internet is not really organised in a way for you to do anything useful if you are bored. There’s no “learn about the world” course you take when you have nothing else to do.

I'd argue you're holding it wrong. The repository of all human knowledge absolutely does contain numerous "learn about the world" courses in all shapes and forms. HN, arXiv, Wikipedia, parts of YouTube, and dedicated learning platforms abound and each probably has enough content for a lifetime of learning. I agree it's not designed to make this easy, but it's also not particularly hard. Hit "random article" a few times on Wikipedia and you're off to the races.
Okay I got curious what/who thinks they can buy countries and looked it up. That answer makes sense. Why the PRC-like euphemism for Donald Trump though?
Meanwhile their rules and regulations are the most citizen friendly in the world.
obviously I did

what do we do now, ask other users for their input? make a poll?

i don't know why HN has this habit of using anecdotes as absolute counter-arguments, makes for uninteresting discussion in my opinion

and the subtext is always the same "A did/didn't happen to me, so then it follows A does/doesn't happen to anyone"
I agree.

A fifth point I would add is that it's basically your best best at a global, portable, unconfiscatable diversifier of a portfolio. I think it is a braindead decision for every investment portfolio to have some small (miniscule?) allocation to it.

Have you ever thought about what sort of flaw could not be fixed? I find it hard to imagine.
The main example is a bureaucracy that is trying by every means conceivable to get more and more power over national governments. Every crisis in the Eurozone is exploited so that the EU has more and more to say about how governments need to behave and which rules they need to follow. And of course, the EU controls the currency, which makes it easier to deal with smaller governments.
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Mine is to leave the phone on the charger and treat it as a "home phone" when I'm not out.